Ginger has several health benefits such as treating nausea, reducing muscle pain, and helping with osteoarthritis. It may also lower blood sugar and improve heart health. The document provides 8 steps for growing ginger indoors from a ginger root, which involves soaking and planting the root in a pot with drainage holes, keeping the soil moist, and eventually harvesting small pieces after a few months of growth.

2. ADVANTAGES OF GINGER
• Ginger can treat many forms of nausea,
especially morning sickness.
• Ginger may reduce muscle pain and
soreness.
• The anti-inflammatory effects can help with
osteoarthritis.
• Ginger may drastically lower blood sugars
and improve heart disease risk factors.

3. Instructions for
How to Grow
Ginger Indoors:

4. STEP-1
 Start with a living ginger root. These are
available from nurseries, garden centers or
seed companies. If you have a friend with a
ginger plant, a root cutting from that may
work as well. Choose a root that is firm,
plump and has tight skin with several eye buds
on it (like the bumps you find on a potato).
Roots can be cut and sectioned at the buds and
planted so that each will grow into
an individual plant.

5. STEP-2
 Soak the ginger root in warm water overnight
to prepare for planting

6. STEP-3
 Fill a shallow, wide plant pot (ginger roots
grow horizontally) with rich, well-draining
potting soil.

7. STEP-4
 Place the ginger root with the eye bud pointing
up and cover it with 1-2 inches more of soil.
Water lightly.

8. STEP-5
 Place the pot in a spot that stays warm and
doesn’t get a lot of bright light.

9. STEP-6
 Keep the soil moist, being careful not to over-
water.Ginger is slow to grow. Be patient.
After 2-3 weeks, you should see some shoots
coming up.

10. STEP -7
 A few months after growth begins, small
pieces of ginger can be harvested. Move the
soil at the edges of the pot to find some ginger
rhizomes (the term for an underground,
continuously growing stem) beneath the
surface. Cut the desired amount off a stem
toward the edge of the pot and then replace the
soil to allow it to continue to grow.

11. STEP-8
 If you follow these steps for how to grow
ginger indoors, your supply can be grown and
harvested endlessly.